Introducing a New Feature – Series by PointsNerd
Hey guys, I’ve been trying to keep everything in order on the site as best I can and for those that read this site often, you may have noticed that some posts have been shared in a series. For example, my latest series was on Finding Award Availability. Suffice it to say, these series’ help people
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Easy Status Match with Best Western
About a month or so ago I wrote about how to leverage your existing status in order to get status with another hotel or airline. Today I am bringing you an easy status match. Right now Best Western is marketing their “No Catch Status Match” which is great as there are a lot of chains that require
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How I Travel – Luggage
I’m a pretty efficiency driven person and that is really prevalent when I travel. Whether it be for work or pleasure, a day or a month, I never, and I mean NEVER check bags. The only exception to this rule for the past 10 years was when I am forced to check my daughter’s car
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Finding Award Availability – Part 5 – Video Tutorial
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Finding Award Availability
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Finding Award Availability – Part 4 – Value of Your Award and Tips and Tricks
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Finding Award AvailabilityIn the past 3 days we have gone through all the steps you need to take in order to find and book your award travel. In this particular example, Lisa wants to travel from Ottawa or Montreal to Milan with an open jaw
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Finding Award Availability – Part 3 – Finding Availability
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Finding Award AvailabilityYesterday, we explored the routes that make the most sense for Lisa and they were: Outbound YUL-IST-MXP on Turkish Airlines YUL-ZRH-MXP on Swiss Airlines Inbound GVA-IST-YUL on Turkish Airlines GVA-ZRH-YUL on Swiss Airlines We also know that Lisa is looking to travel April
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Finding Award Availability – Part 2 – Finding Your Route
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Finding Award AvailabilityYesterday, we looked to make sure that Lisa had enough points to fly from Ottawa or Montreal to Milan, Italy with an open jaw return from Geneva. Today, we will look at finding route options so that we can begin to search for
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Finding Award Availability – Part 1 – Contest Winner
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Finding Award AvailabilityToday we begin the step-by-step journey on how to book award flights. Thanks to the commenters from Friday’s thread, we have some real world award request in which to try to find availability. The random number picker on random.org picked Lisa as the winner.
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Need Help With Your Award Flight?
So I’ve been at this for just a little over a month and the blog is going strong! I may slow down the articles a little bit but I intend on continuing to bring you good quality content you can use in your travel hacking journey. As a reward to my loyal readers I thought I
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Breaking News – CIBC Change in Policy (For the Worse)
As first reported by PointsHogger, CIBC has updated their credit card policy to be in lockstep with American Express’s Once in a Lifetime policy. In layman’s terms, this means that if you have collected a sign up bonus on a CIBC card, you may not qualify for another sign up bonus if you apply for the same
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